Biden floats nearly $20M in prizes for AI tools that secure US computer code

Fox News anchor Julie Banderas reacts to the vice president's gaffe and CNN calling Dylan Mulvaney a man on'Jesse Watters Primetime.' The White House launched a two-year competition the week that will award millions of dollars in prize money to teams that develop artificial intelligence tools that can be used to protect critical U.S. computer code. "This competition, which will feature almost $20 million in prizes, will drive the creation of new technologies to rapidly improve the security of computer code, one of cybersecurity's most pressing challenges," the White House said Wednesday. "It marks the latest step by the Biden-Harris Administration to ensure the responsible advancement of emerging technologies and protect Americans." The AI Cyber Challenge will be hosted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and will let AI development teams show the agency early next year how their AI-powered tools can protect U.S. code that "helps run the internet and other critical infrastructure."